PREVIEW: Mark “Makybe” Freeman writes: Punters! Forget the arctic blasts and sideways rain – spring has sprung and it’s time to get on. Already we’ve seen rising star Mic Mac put paid to them in the Aurie’s Star, which also featured “Big El” – Colin Little’s champ El Segundo – rattling home for third.
Racing: Liston Stakes day is a matter of weighing up winter-fit runners against the classy ones resuming for spring
August 14, 2009 by 4 Comments
Racing: Search resumes for ones to follow
August 14, 2009 by 6 Comments
By Chris Riordan Neighbours were chatting on the footpath this week. It was approaching 6pm and still light. Winter is fading and the joys of spring can be sensed. Saturday’s fields reinforce this. It’s by no means a feature card, but the Liston Stakes meeting, for a time a Sandown fixture but now “Classic Caulfield”, [Read more]
Takeover Target
April 20, 2009 by 3 Comments
I love returning my mind to that time in the old days when you came back into Australia after a trip OS. Before sensibilities started to turn global. When there was no internet to keep you up to date and international phone calls still cost so much that you got the footy scores by picking [Read more]
To go to Oakbank is to back a certain winner
April 17, 2009 by 18 Comments
By Chris Riordan In South Australia, people know how often they’ve “been to Oakbank”. For well over 130 years, generations have journeyed in to the Hills and been intoxicated by the magic that is nowadays promoted (debatably) as the biggest picnic race carnival in the world.
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